Painter of seascapes, but especially of delicately painted flower arrangements. This painting is painted very true to nature, but grouped in such a way that in reality it would be impossible for it to remain like this. The stems of the flowers could never fit like this in the vase decorated with putti. Example for the painter here was the academic Jan van Huysum (1682 – 1749), Van Os, however, goes even further in this 18th-century ‘mannerism’. We also find the bright colouring and refined execution equally echoed by van Huysum.
In 1770, the year Van Os produced these pieces, he was portrayed by Hendrik Pothoven.